Book Log
Log — Interested
2021
Name
Finished
Escape From Five Shadows
2021-02-02
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2021-03-05
Beau Geste
2021-05-20
The Call of the Wild
2021-05-21
The Eye of Argon [online]
2021-05-21
The Secret Sharer [short story]
2021-05-22
Pygmalion [play]
2021-05-24
Slaughterhouse-Five
2021-05-30
Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe[1]
2021-06-03
Very Far Away From Anywhere Else
2021-06-04
A Journey to the Center of the Earth[2]
2021-06-11
Salvador Dalí: Life and Work
2021-06-13
The Glass Castle
2021-06-18
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus[3]
2021-06-24
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2021-07-13
Kingdom Come [comic]
2021-12-18
[1] Contains: The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Purloined Letter; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; The Pit and the Pendulum; A Tale of the Ragged Mountains; A Descent into the Maelström; The Black Cat; "Thou Art The Man"; Metzengerstein; and some poetry.
[2] English translation. Per Project Gutenberg, the version I read was basically a rewrite.
[3] 1831 revision.
2022
Name
Finished
Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of the Rings"[4]
2022-08-27
Understanding Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings[5]
2022-08-29
The Chrysalids
2022-08-30
On Bullshit [essay] [reread]
2022-08-30
The Farthest Shore
2022-09-01
The Brick Bible [comic]
2022-09-03
Practicing the Power of Now[6]
2022-09-05
Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West
2022-09-12
Animals in Translation[7]
2022-09-21
The Card
2022-09-26
A Farewell to Arms
2022-10-05
Anne of Green Gables
2022-10-13
The Last Unicorn
2022-10-20
Krazy & Ignatz 1931-1932: "A Kat a'Lilt with Song" [comic]
2022-10-23
From Hell [comic][8]
2022-11-03
Duncton Wood
2022-11-22
Two Arms and a Head: The Death of a Newly Paraplegic Philosopher [online]
2022-11-24
The Hobbit [reread][9]
2022-12-01
The Tolkien Reader [reread][10]
2022-12-09
The Tell-Tale Heart And Other Writings By Edgar Allan Poe[11]
2022-12-15
The Journey to the East
2022-12-15
Elements of Fiction Writing: Characters & Viewpoint
2022-12-20
Paul Moves Out [comic]
2022-12-21
The Shadow Catcher: A U.S. Agent Infiltrates Mexico's Deadly Crime Cartels
2022-12-27
The Making of Karateka: Journals 1982-1985[12]
2022-12-31
Travels in Western Africa in 1845 & 1846, Volume 1 (of 2) [Project Gutenberg]
2022-12-31
[4] An early book about The Lord of The Rings which is held in pretty low regard.
[5] This is astonishingly bad.
[6] A condensed version of The Power of Now. I read this for the worst possible reason: it was nearby and short.
[7] Skipped the animal behavior troubleshooting guide.
[8] Skipped most of Appendix I.
[9] Revised edition (with changes to Gollum).
[10] Contains: The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son; Tree and Leaf (On Fairy-Stories; Leaf by Niggle); Farmer Giles of Ham; The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
[11] Started near the end of 2021. Planned to finish in Jan 2022, but was intimidated by The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, which is a full novel (and frankly, a huge mess). Read: The Cask of Amontillado; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Masque of the Red Death; Ligeia; Ms. Found in a Bottle; The Premature Burial; William Wilson; Eleonara; Silence - A Fable; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket; and some poetry.
[12] Self-published version.
2023
Name
Finished
We
2023-01-04
Travels in Western Africa in 1845 & 1846, Volume 2 (of 2) [Project Gutenberg]
2023-01-08
A Grave in Gaza
2023-01-09
Gentleman Jim [comic]
2023-01-30
The Forge of God
2023-01-31
Something Wicked This Way Comes
2023-02-07
Palace of Light
2023-02-19
Runoff [comic]
2023-02-19
The Adventures of a Simpleton[13]
2023-02-26
The King in Yellow [Standard Ebooks]
2023-02-28
Skim [comic]
2023-03-05
Catch-22
2023-03-15
Scottish Ghost Stories[14]
2023-03-20
Good-Bye, Chunky Rice [comic]
2023-03-23
Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas[15]
2023-04-02
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [Project Gutenberg]
2023-04-14
Gauntlet to Overlord: The Story of the Canadian Army
2023-04-30
Dracula [Standard Ebooks]
2023-05-10
Conjure Wife [Project Gutenberg]
2023-05-10
The Lair of the White Worm [Project Gutenberg]
2023-05-13
Ten Days in a Mad-House [Project Gutenberg]
2023-05-13
The Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales of Mark Twain[16]
2023-06-07
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
2023-06-25
The Devil's Dictionary [Standard Ebooks]
2023-06-30
Irene Iddesleigh [Project Gutenberg]
2023-07-07
How the Mind Works
2023-08-12
On a Pale Horse [audiobook][17]
2023-08-22
Le Petit Prince [fr] [Kobo]
2023-08-29
The God Delusion
2023-09-06
Blankets [comic]
2023-09-09
Frank Robbins' Johnny Hazard Volume One: The Newspaper Dailies 1944-1946 [comic]
2023-09-13
Histoire de Pierre Lapin [fr] [Project Gutenberg][18]
2023-09-14
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
2023-09-17
The Wright Brothers
2023-09-23
The Slap
2023-11-12
A Philosophy of Software Design
2023-11-20
Jurassic Park
2023-12-01
The Bourne Identity
2023-12-18
Nomads of the Night
2023-12-18
The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993[19]
2023-12-22
Abandon [audiobook][20]
2023-12-27
Stoner
2023-12-30
[13] Abridged translation of Simplicius Simplicissimus.
[14] Also on Project Gutenberg.
[15] Updated 1999 edition.
[16] This collection is a bit too complete. We get two instances of Twain dissecting French translations of his jumping frog story. A Deception and How the Author Was Sold in Newark are pretty much the same joke. Twain savages an old novella, and then reproduces it in its entirety.
[17] Humble Audiobook Bundle.
[18] English: The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
[19] Self-published version.
[20] Humble Audiobook Bundle.
2024
Title, Published
Finished
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris [2011]
2024-01-17
A Most Wanted Man [2008]
2024-01-26
A Beleaguered City [1880][6n]
2024-01-30
The White People [1917][6n]
2024-02-08
The Terror [1917][6n]
2024-02-11
Sweet Rocket [1920][6n]
2024-02-17
Portrait of Jennie [1940][6n]
2024-02-18
True Grit [1968] [audiobook][22]
2024-02-18
Foundation [1951][fnd]
2024-02-24
Foundation and Empire [1952][fnd]
2024-03-02
Second Foundation [1953][fnd]
2024-03-07
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold [1963][jlc]
2024-03-15
A Small Town in Germany [1968][jlc]
2024-03-27
The Looking Glass War [1965][jlc]
2024-03-30
The Fabulous Flight [1949]
2024-03-31
Carrie [1974] [Kobo]
2024-04-03
The Portrait [2005]
2024-04-06
Into the Wild [1996]
2024-04-14
When the Wind Blows [1982] [comic]
2024-04-14
Gone Girl [2012]
2024-04-25
Butcher's Crossing [1960]
2024-05-03
The Moving Toyshop [1946]
2024-05-08
How Green Was My Valley [1939]
2024-07-06
The House in Tuesday Market [1929]
2024-07-11
A Midsummer Night's Dream [c. 1595] [play] [reread][mnd]
2024-07-20
Macbeth [1623] [play][mb]
2024-07-25
Berserk vols. 1 - 40 [1990 - 2018] [comic][bz]
2024-07-28
The Mission Song [2006]
2024-08-02
Titus Groan [1946]
2024-08-17
Legends of 16-Bit Game Development: A History of Treasure and the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis [2023]
2024-08-24
Can Such Things Be? [1871 - 1909] [Standard Ebooks][cstb]
2024-08-28
Three Men in a Boat [1889] [Standard Ebooks]
2024-08-31
Short Fiction [1928 - 1955] [Standard Ebooks][cs]
2024-09-01
The Complete Peanuts vols. 5 - 8 [1959 - 1966] [comic][tcp]
2024-09-13
Sense and Sensibility [1811] [Standard Ebooks]
2024-09-19
The Comedy of Errors [1623] [play][tcoe]
2024-09-23
My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke [1890] [Project Gutenberg]
2024-09-29
The Complete Dick Tracy vol. 9 [1944 - 1945] [comic]
2024-10-28
1st Case [2020]
2024-11-03
In the Midst of Life [1909] [Standard Ebooks][itmol]
2024-11-30
[6n] Part of the collection Six Novels of the Supernatural (Viking Portable Library, 1944). Available on Project Gutenberg or Standard Ebooks: A Beleaguered City; The Return; The White People; The Terror; Sweet Rocket.
[21] 1922 revision (originally published in 1910, revised again in 1945).
[22] Humble Audiobook Bundle.
[fnd] The Foundation Trilogy omnibus.
[jlc] John le Carré: Three Complete Novels omnibus.
[mnd] The New Folger Library.
[mb] First performed c. 1606. Edition: The Bantam Shakespeare Macbeth.
[bz] Read throughout the first half of the year. The entries have been merged to keep the list tidy.
[tcp] Read in August and September. The entries have been merged to keep the list tidy.
[cstb] First published in 1893. The Standard Ebooks edition combines content from multiple releases.
[cs] Includes War No. 81-Q, Scanners Live in Vain and The Game of Rat and Dragon.
[tcoe] Published in the First Folio, but first performed circa 1592. Edition: The Signet Classic Shakespeare.
[itmol] Expanded 1909 edition (first published in 1892).